It is easy for description to take over in a drawing or painting—and I think that might be true in life too. I paint so that material facts, processes, and descriptive information can bounce back and forth to form an experience that is not just a collection of mostly well-behaved actions that, no matter how expressive, ultimately deliver specific content. Instead, I hope for a range of perceptual and psychological features that create experiences based on the way these characteristics vibrate with each other. I believe vibrations are the basis for important connections with representations that our frequent battles over meanings might not always allow us to sense. Since truth does not seem to convince as many people as it used to anymore, anyway, maybe we need to consider the possibility that the energy that travels to and from representations is what matters most. Maybe examining our passions in our connections to representations is more useful. I hope my work foregrounds some of these negotiations.